A Case of the Road Less Gravelled

I love this bank!Since coming public over 15 years ago, Community Bankshares of Indiana has grown nicely from a little $130M thrift to an $800M commercial bank with a diversified loan portfolio.CBIN stock is cheap no matter how you look at it: price to book value, price to tangible book, or price to earnings. I would guess that a year from now, tangible book could reach $20 a share and we’re likely to see the stock trading for 120% of book or better, paving the way for a nice return if you buy it today.

Disclosure: As of this posting, I own shares of CBIN and may subsequently either dispose of them or purchase more.

Prospective Buyers

Although CBIN is surely an attractive acquisition target, I believe it should stay independent as long as Management continues to deliver such stellar returns

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Financial Snapshot(as of 03/31/2013)

Total assets:

$810M

Tangible book value per share:

$17.23

NPAs to assets:

2.6%

Price to book:

61%

Market cap:

$53.6M

Dividend yield:

2.8%

Trailing 12-month return on assets:

0.95%

Trailing 12-month return on equity:

9.11%

TARP:

$0M

Luminaries

Gary L. Libs, Chairman

James D. Rickard, CEO and President

Paul A. Chrisco, Executive VP and CFO

Gold Stars

I like these people! Although I don’t know them personally, I have a lot of confidence in CBIN's management team.

Libs and Rickard have been driving this money-making machine together for more than a decade. Libs has been a Director since 1989, and Rickard has been CEO and President since 2000

CBIN insiders own a whopping 19% of stock, and have made eight separate insider purchases already this year. Which — if you’ve followed my work, you already know — I consider a super strong indicator of future success

I like their numbers! Besides being solidly profitable for the past 15 quarters, CBIN:

Ranks in the top quartile of U.S. banks in ROE and ROA

Has reduced NPAs by more than 60% since they peaked in 2011

Has shown it can effectively acquire other banks — three so far! (most recently, First Federal Bank of Lexington, KY)